Iain Roberts' Blog

Part One looked at the narratives of the big winners and smaller losers in the 2015 general election. We now turn to the Labour party. S...

Very few people vote for a detailed manifesto; we vote for stories. Any major party's election manifesto makes for deadly dull readi...

I recently wrote about how the SNP showed change is possible within our political system. Even the safest seats are vulnerable to a well-or...

Political parties like to pretend they own votes, but they don't. The SNP proved that on election night. The first-past-the-post elect...

ICYMI, my Reasons to be Cheerful tweeted the day after the election are below the fold.

For your edification and amusement, some of my Twitter activity from the long dark night of the election is below the fold. Shockingly enoug...

I'm writing this around midnight on election night, as the results begin to come in and we digest that shocking exit poll: State of ...

The campaigning is over. (Thank Cthulhu for that.) If you have a vote, please use it, but I'd be grateful if it is not for UKIP . The ...

In Part 1 and Part 2 , I looked at reasons not to panic over the rise of the SNP. The UK political classes seem determined to panic anyway....

( Part 1 of this series looked at reactions to the SNP's likely victory in the general election, and reasons why it will not be as cata...

The UK political classes claim an SNP victory in the general election would have cataclysmic results. There are not many points of agreeme...

Earlier this month, someone vandalised the Conservative and Labour party offices in Aberdeen . I assumed it was the work of a random bampot...

In the general election on 7 May, I am voting to re-elect Julian Huppert as Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge. Sign in my front gard...

The Daily Telegraph has published  a leaked civil service memo ; it recounts a conversation between SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and the Frenc...

This week, Alex Salmond announced the SNP would vote against a minority Conservative government, if David Cameron attempts to form one afte...

Another week, another UKIP scandal. This time it involves  Janice Atkinson , an MEP and prospective parliamentary candidate for Folkestone ...

The Scottish Labour Party is in deep trouble. Many of the reasons are obvious, but I will explore a less obvious one. The facts are well k...